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Dept. of unnecessary evasion

My colleague Keach Hagey notes Fox News' odd reluctance to comment for a Washington Post story that (mostly) portrays it as a fair and balanced news organization, which is its slogan.

"There’s little question that Fox is an important news and opinion source for conservative voters, despite the relatively small audiences that cable news attracts," the Post's Paul Farhi writes. "But campaign watchers are hard-pressed to detect a tilt by the network toward one candidate. Even the two candidates who have worked for Fox News as on-air contributors, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, don’t appear to have had any special access or advantage during the campaign."